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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e s VOL. LIIL, NO. 7992. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FDR. ASKS HUGE NATIONAL DEEENSE SUM WORLDBOMB CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW: THROWN IN F.D.R. SPEECH Aggressor N afli ions Flay President for “Do- | mestic Politics™ BOYCOTT HOPED FOR BY LONDON, PARIS Children G(—Jfi fo War as Spain Sees Franco Make Gains By ASSOCIATED PRESS Anti-Democratic tides rolled high- er today as President Roosevelt’s call for preparation against “aggres- sor governments” evoked totalitar- ian storms in Germany, Italy and Japan. A new cabinet has been installed in Tokyo. Reactionary Baron Hiran- uma has become Premier, succeed- ing Prince Konoye as head of a new | authorization Government. | New Centrol Indicated Under Hiranuma, Japan is expect- ed to impose increasingly strict con- trol of economic life, seek to con- | solidate conquests in China, and| bring all political parties into one group. No regard for the Open Door policy is expected. In Spain, boys le$s than 18 years of age have been called to the de-| fense of Loyalist lines as Franco’s forces are said to have fought their way to the outskirts of Borjas Blan- | cas, southern key to the Govern-! ment defense lines in eastern Spain. It is also said that Aretesa, 60 miles northwest of Barcelona, has fallen. Reesevelt's Message Studied Heads of every government in the | world today studied President Roosevelt’s warning against permis- sion of unwonted aggressions . Britain and France found encour- agement in the President’s hints at changes in American neutrality leg- islation and what was regarded as a veiled threat to boycot aggressor nations. The German and Italian press has| pclice were forced to rig up a life-line around the city hall. accused Roosevelt of playing dom- estic politics and deserting historic pelicies of isolation. Meanwhile, France was harassed abroad by Italian colonial aspira- tions and faced a new strike lock- out that threatens wobbly domestic peace. ROCK SLIDE IS CAUSE OF DEATH ON C. P. SYSTEM Engineer of Freight Train, Killed-Locomotive, 4 Cars Leave Track NELSON, B. C, Jan. 5—A small | rock slide on the Kootenay link of | the Canadian Pacific Railway, 40 miles east of here, derailed an en- gine and four cars of the westbound freight train, killing engineer Ar- thur Bolt, 47, and injuring two trainmen. A wrecking train and crew cleared the silde in ten hours and traffic RELIEF AND PENSIONS 1—The problem of taking care of unemployed and aged will be tackled anew by Congress, Re- publicans will demand that re- lief expenditures be pared by transferring part of the load to the states. The President has promised to extend benefits of *the Social Security ¥ct; many new congressmen plugged big- ger pensions to get votes. Pedestrians DEFENSE 2—The peacé of Munich brought more preparedness talk than any other event since the War. Congressmen will hear a lot about thousands of new air- planes (for which the President may ask), a two-ocean navy, extension of the Monroe Doc- trine. They will hear also from constituents who see little need for spending millions on arms. has Use Llfe-Lum While streng, icy winds whipped an hecur gale, sweeping in off Lake bitter cold. her way alcng the pavement. MERCY FLIGHTS NOW TRADITION OF NORTHLAND {Coast Guardsmen Civilian Pilofs Become Alaska’s "Good Samaritans’ By GAIL FOWLER SEATTLE, Jan. 5—The Associat- ed Press telephone rings. It's the Coast Guard. “Say, we've got a little story for| you,” says the Coast Guardsman.| “A plane just left Port Angeles to| pick up a woman who's going to| A weman is shown, clinging to life-line, as have a baby. Going to take her over to Anacortes . . .” | The teletype connected with the tically ruined by commercial devels | across the northern haif of the United States, driving the mercury to sub-zero figures, Buffalo, N. Y., A 61-mile Erie, added to the danger of the she makes FRASER RIVER FISH INDUSTRY IS ENDANGERED Hydroeledric Power De- velopments Now Caus- ing Grave Fears NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C., Jan. 5—The Fraser River salmon | industry is in danger of destruction through hydroelectric power devel- opments in the opinion of Tom | Reid, member of Parliament and also a member of International| Sockeye Commission. Reid also said salmon fishing on | the Columbia River has been prac- Alaska Communications System of opment despite construction of fish 3—Republicans, and some Dem- ocrats too, are campaigning for revision of the Wagner Labor Act. AFL’s William Green has joined in because he thinks the act favors the CIO. The Presi- dent is believed to oppose any re- vision likely to hamper the union movement. Any amendments made probably won't affect the collective bargaining principle. STARTED J 4-—-GOP leaders have balked at the unbalanced budget ever since the New Deal started add- ing to the Hoover depression de- ficits. Now that the Republican delegation has grown, louder cries for tax cuts to help the bus- iness man can be expected. The President has forecast some tax revision, though there's no hope Ior a balnnced budget m 1939. ANUARY 3 5—Dissatisfaction with Secre- tary Wallace'’s intricate acreage and marketing program to take care of crop surpluses is credit- ed with having swept Republi- cans back into several prairie state capitals. Now the new Con- gress must tell the harried Sec- retary what to do. Although GOP blasted the program it hasn't pinned itself down to a specific !arm formula. THESE SIX ISSUES ARE PROBABLY THE HOTTEST ONES THAT WILL FACE THE PRESENT CONGRESS WHICH 6—Some government employees will find themselves working in new departments if the Presi- dent successfully revives his re- organization bill to streamline Federal administration. New Deal strategists may cut his plan up into several bills to head off the opposition from both parties which defeated the measure by a close vobe last year. 1SNAMED TO HIGH COURT | Professor of_Harvard Law School Is Successor : to Cardozo WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. — Presi- dent Roosevelt has named Felix Frankfurter, 56, of Massachusetts, ofessor of the Harvard Law School, Supreme Court of the United States to succeed the Late Benjamin Car- dozo. He is sponsored by Senator George W. Norris, one of the lead- ing Liberals in Congress. Frankfurter has a long legal back- ground. He is a native of Vienna. He has been Professor at Harvard since 1914, | The appointee is a son of Jew- ish parents | The Senate quickly referred the | nomination to the Judiciary Com- | mittee. | Ceomment Is Made | Prior ment, some Senators urged that |a westerner be named, since that/ " |section is not now represented be- yond Minnesota but the first sena- torial comment which came from |the west is favorable. Senator James E. Murray, of Montana, said: “Mr. |Frankfurter has a reputation of |being a very able lawyer of the Supreme Court rank.” It is expected that confirmation | |will be made quickly as there 1s | apparently little opposition from }Lhe Republican side. Senator Taft |and Senator Vandenberg refused to !make any comment. Senator Thomas, Republican of New Jer- sey said: “I cannot conceive of a worse appointment. Testimony pre- ‘sen!,ed to the Dies Committee rela- | tive to various radical organiza- |tions and names of whose members | were mentioned, included the name |of Frankfurter. The President | might have appointed either Brow- |der or Bridges.” William Green, President of the | American Federation of Labor, |termed Frankfurter as a “man of broad vision and ability and will | |render exact justice to all litigants as Associate Justice of the | to Frankfurter's appoint-: | the U. S. Army Signal Corps starts | ladders. | ticking away laboriously. An item | —— .- | of all classes of people.” % | from Juneau: “Simmons leaves nine | a.m Cape Fairweather attempt reach | | shipwrecked Patterson survivors . The editor goes to work on anA, & other mercy flight. { (hange In Name Hardly a week passes without atl least one, up to Thursday, two weeks SEATTLE, Jan.’ 5—A marriage |ago, there had been eight. Most are license has been issued to Louis D. in Alaska, that far-flung territory Deblieux, 53, of Ketchikan, Alaska, | which has been knit together main- | and Gladys R. Deblieux, 40, of New ly through efforts of weather-defy- Orleans. |ing pilots who never admit fear as sl e they link isolated outposts with In- PROMI“E"' ME“ m operate without all the safety ald.sw (l“ fRoM sl‘l“ }and conveniences to which U. S.| | pilots have become accustomed. A poll conducted last year in ‘Falrbanks credited the airplane Eiler Hansen, Superintendent of | with being the principal 20th cen- | terior and seaboard towns. And they | ABO ARD NOR'HMND‘ Territory “Air-Minded” the Pioneers’ Home, Dr. W. C. Chart- tury invention to aid Alaska. The| was resumed. e Married, Buf No eris and C. E. Wortman, member of | Territory is perhaps more *“air-| the Board of Trustees of the Home, minded” than any state in the| all of Sitka, arrived in Juneau on ynion. | the Northland. Dr. Charteris is a| The wilds of northern British Co- | witness in the Jerome Armstrong| jumbia and the Yukon Territory murder case now on trial in Federal| glso have their share of mercy Court and Hansen and Wortman| flighis. A trapper is isolated by a are in the city for several days on business. (Contihued on Page Three) FORMER SENATOR POPE IS NAMED T.V.A. MEMBER WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. — Presi- SHORT COMMENT BOSTON, Mass,, Jan. 5. — Prof. | Frankfurter said: “I am of course sensible at the obligations of honor involved, otherwise I have | nothing to say.” Stock Quo IONS dent Roosevelt today named former | United States Senator James P. Pope, of Idaho, as a member of the Tennessee Valley Authority. He suc- ceetls Arthur Morgan. s ol Privileges of Retirement for Alaska Judges :: WASHINGTON, Jan. 5A——Senacor_‘ Henry F. Ashurst, of Arizona, has introduced a bill to extend the pri- veliges fo retirement to Judges of the Federal Courts in Alaska, NEW YORK, Jan. 5. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock is 10, American Can 99%, Am- | erican Light and Power 6, Anaconda | 347%, Bethlehem Steel 77%, Com- | monwealth and Southern 1%, Curt- | iss Wright 6%, General Motors 49%, International Harvester 57%, Ken. | necott 43%, Northern Pacific 13%, | Safeway Stores 29%, Southern Paci- | fic 20%, United States Steel 67%, Bremner bid 1 asked 2, Pound DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 153.18, rails 83.26, utilities 22.96, 'FRANKFURTER |PATTERSON 1| NEWMARSHAL 3D DIVISION Senator frofialdez Nam- ‘ ed by President fo Suc- | ceed C. J. Todd ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. — James Patterson of Valdez, Alaska has been appgy by President Roosevelt as United States Marshal for the Third | Division, Alaska, it is officialy an- | nounced today and his name has | been sent to the Senate for con- | | firmation. Mr. Patterson, who has been ap- pointed Marshal in the Third Divi- | sion, is a pioneer resident of Alaska | |and is now a Territorial Senator | from the Third, having previously | served in the House from that Divi- | sion. He is one of the best known merchants and mining men in Lhe; Westward. Senator Patterson succeeds C. J.| Todd, who has served for the last four years but had decided to re- | linquish his duties due to ill health. — e FABLED SILVER MINE IN THIS - REGION SOUGHT |Pioneer’s Journal Leaves Story of Very Rich | Deposit Here l A great lost silver mine, described !as being “not too far from Ju- neau,” has started Beulah Hurst of Los Angeles on the trail of the elusive will-o-the-wisp. Mrs. Hurst, in a letter today to the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, states she learned of the mine while doing historical research in |Oregon on the journals of early ,Northwest. pioneers. | One explorer, who came to Al- |aska in 1852, left a record describ- |ing a “very rich silver mine,” Mrs. Hurst says. At the time .of the | mine’s discovery the prospector did not know what the metal was and |only learned through assays taken long afterward that the ore he had picked up and puzzled over Wwas "more than 50 percent silver,” ac- | cording to his story as quoted by | Mrs. Hurst. since then, the miner wrote, he had spent $7,000 in a fruitless ef- fort to retrace his steps to the silver deposit, making five trips to Alaska in the search. Mrs. Hurst wrote to the Cham- ber to learn whether any mining |concern would be interested in the information she possesses from the old prospector’s journals. —_— e —— | SON OF KSAR |” LEXINGTON, Ky.—Castel Fusa- {no, the French race horse who will make his debut as a sire in Ken- tucky in 1939, is a son of the fam- ous French stallion, Ksar. (b SR S | The Valdez Miner, weekly news- | paper, said the recent cold spell | there hit the community hard. Crows were even flying high and He btarted the Senate Off Vice-President John N. Garner is shown after he had mounted uu. rostrum in the United States Senate and rapped for order at the open- ing on January 3 of the Seventy-sixth Congress. The ivory gavel he used, which really isn’t a gavel at all, in that it has no handle, dates back to the Continental Congress and has been used by every Vice- President. BIG STICK IN DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIONS ISNOTGOOD POLICY;2 SIDES ARE SHOWN By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Jan. 5—States- men, particularly the semi-skilled ones, prefer using the big stick in diplomatic negotiations because it sentatives hardly could belleve their ears. COULD HAVE REACHED TERMS NEW DEFICIT LOOMS AT END NEXT 2 YEARS President Advises Against "Violent Contraction’ of Spending OPENS WAY FOR MILD ANCREASES IN TAXES Warns Against Changing Policy of Present Re- lief Adminstration WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt today asked for @& vast sum for nationn! defense in & multi-million dollar Ludget project= |ing another deficit and an unpre- cedented public debt of $44,458,000,~ 000 in 1940. In his report to Congress on the sations finances, the President ad- vised emphatically agsinst “violent contraction” in spending or “drastic new taxes” but he opened the way, however, to “moderate tax increases™ are expected to run out by Feb- | ruary 1. For next year the President asked $1,500,000,000 for WPA and requested | no new WPA program, but he esti- I mated $366,000,000 would be neces- | underway. sary to carry out the work already He recommended strict legislacion and imposing of penalties for “improper practices” in the | handling of relief, | | Continue Set-up The Ohief Executive, however, asked that the present program of administration be continued for the rest of the fiscal year. To prevent disruption of the program he sug- gested hearings and careful consid- eration before changing administra- tive policy and opposed turning ad- ministration over to local boards as suggested in some quarters. Anyone proposing such a method, the Presi- | dent added, “either is insincere or ignorant of the realities of local American politics.” FDR MESSAGE APPROVED BY CHAMBERLAIN LONDON, Jan. 5. — Prime Min- One important observer here who | ister Chamberlain today said Presi- was virtually a participant: in that |dent Roosevel’s message to Con- | ige'.a temporary results faster. But the policy of slow and persusave treatment like that applied at Lima has good precedent just now—in the reverse, Jdpan began using the “big stick” on China even before the onset of the present century, but particularly a little more than 20 years ago. Diplomatic observers here who have watehed Oriental developments over a period of years are convinced that if Japan had pursued a different policy she might easily have had China trade largely for herself with- out making so many enemies. It was in 1915, while the allies were busy in Germany, that Japan suddenly exacted from China a com- pliance with the 21 demands. Their terms were as harsh as those im- posed upon Czechoslovakia, but the hulking republic, still muddled in| revolution, knew no way of escape and had been cautioned by Japan against seeking outside aid. The thing was almost a fait accompli wheén the United States and other powers discovered the situation and lthe rabbits were wearing snowshoes. | stopped it, although their repre- affair, said that if Japan had simply gone to China with a cool proposi- tion of reciprocal trade, it would have been accepted. Japan might simply have pointed out her own increasing needs for raw materials and her increasing capacity to sup- ply manufactured goods to China. China had the raw materials and a desire for the manufactured goods, especially cotton goods, which Japan was becoming so skillful in produc- ing. Instead, the threat of the 21 de- mands renewed in China a com- plete distrust of Japanese purposes which had shown signs of abating. Now Japan is so desperately ex- tended in China in her attempt at conquest that it is hard for observ- ers here to see a successful way out for her. She cannot withdraw with- out completing the conquest. To do so would leave her a beaten third class nation, financially stricken by the costly, useless war. And yet more than one authority on Oriental affairs seriously doubts that Japan can keep China subject for a period (Continued on Page Seven) | gress, given yesterday, is just “an- other indicotion of the vital role the American Democracy is taking in the affairs of the world. It's devo- tion is ideal and in the order of human progress,” | JUNEAU MEN TO 1939 TERRITORY CHAMBER NAMED 'Shatfuck, Folfa, Holbrook, Glasse fo Represent Local Group Four representatives of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce to the Ter- ritorial Chamber meetings here Jan- uary 20 and February 22 were ap~ pointed today by Chamber W Charles W. Carter. Representatives will be Allen Shat- tuck, George W. Folta, Wellman Holbrook and the Rev. J. A, Glasse,